How to Turn Your Road Bike Into a Time-Trial or Triathlon Machine

A Picture-Perfect Conversion

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If the road conversion needed any validation, consider that Tom Zirbel won the 2013 US Pro Time Trial title on a converted Orbea Orca road bike, not the Ordu TT model. Zirbel’s set-up is a combination of some simple choices, like aero wheels, and more complicated changes, like the switch to a dedicated base bar/aero bar cockpit with TT shifters. The good news? You can go almost as fast with a simpler setup.